Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?
Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?
It's not just misinformation gained from too many hours listening to Fox News, either.
Many conservatives have a loose relationship with facts. The right-wing denial of what most people think of as accepted reality starts with political issues: As recently as 2016, 45 percent of Republicans still believed that the Affordable Care Act included “death panels” (it doesn’t). A 2015 poll found that 54 percent of GOP primary voters believed then-President Obama to be a Muslim (…he isn’t).
Why are conservatives so susceptible to misinformation? The right wing’s disregard for facts and reasoning is not a matter of stupidity or lack of education. College-educated Republicans are actually more likely than less-educated Republicans to have believed that Barack Obama was a Muslim and that “death panels” were part of the ACA. And for political conservatives, but not for liberals, greater knowledge of science and math is associated with a greater likelihood of dismissing what almost all scientists believe about the human causation of global warming.___
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Ask a liberal about the war in Ukraine or actually existing socialism and you'll quickly find out it isn't limited to conservatives. 😒
I, too, engage in whataboutism when a question makes me uncomfortable.
Just to provide some context to the mind of the person you responded to they supports the appointment of Tusli Gabbard.
Thanks. Remember that you can click on profiles and use the top right button to "block user" Unless you want to visible to counter their nonsense .
I support defunding USAID too - they do a small amount of good philanthropic work as a cover to maintain public support, but for the most part it's a foreign policy operation dedicated to undermining US enemies and propping up US allies.
Death to America 😘
Hardly. I'm just pointing out y'all are as propagandized as conservatives. You're just susceptible to different lies.
The Western mind is fundamentally broken.
You're not immune to propaganda
No shit, I was a liberal once. I've had to read so many fucking books unlearning a lot of it and actually basing my socialism in historical materialism instead of vibes. I'm sure I still have Western brainworms.
Even now, you're not immune to propaganda.
Okay?
There's a difference between being immune to propaganda and just not believing everything I hear on MSNBC or Fox.
We can still think!
EDIT What even is your point? My point was the conservatives aren't uniquely susceptible to lies and used liberals as another example of people susceptible to lies. Did you think I was trying to say that I'm a sooper speshul girl and I alone am immune to lies? Come on. 🙄
Your comments sounds like only non-socialists fall for lies.
I definitely didn't think Russia was going to invade Ukraine! I fell for that one and I probably would again, and I recognize that.
Scientific socialists should be aware of their biases and try to control for them, not just assume our superior political theories make us immune to being tricked.
This article just pisses me off because it frames conservatives as uniquely stupid, which is actually just liberal propaganda. That's why I used liberals to make an example.
Hey, i really appreciate that you acknowledge that. I also didnt think hed to that, i thought him more strategically minded.
I just loathe fellow comrades pretending that they are somehow superior beings for being socialist. Or falling for the propaganda of either anarchist socialists or state communists, believing that a regime cannot do anything wrong just because they adhere to a certain ideology. I too fall for this trap.
Trump already won, comrade! There is no need to continue spreading misinformation on the Internet: your mission was successful.
Go collect your loaf of victory bread, you've earned it!
Exhibit A 👆
I'm trans. He's gonna fucking kill me.